Pergusa 1000 km race in 1975

Grandstands at the Autodromo di Pergusa

The 1000 km race of Pergusa 1975 , also Coppa Florio, Enna-Pergusa , took place on May 18 at the Autodromo di Pergusa and was the sixth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

Even in the early days of motorsport, there was a car race called Coppa Florio . In 1900 Alberto Franchetti won a race near Brescia on a Panhard & Levassor , which in 1905 became the Coppa. From 1914 the event was held on the Grande circuito delle Madonie in Sicily . In 1929 the first phase of this race ended with the victory of Albert Divo in the Bugatti Type 35C .

In 1973 the racing event was resumed and in 1975 received world championship status. The 1,000-km race ended in a superior double victory of the Kauhsen used Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 , with ARTURO MERZARIO and Jochen Mass in the winning car.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	1	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Arturo Merzario Jochen Mass	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12	207
2	S 3.0	2	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Derek Bell Henri Pescarolo	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12	206
3	S 3.0	4th	Scuderia Nettuno Ovoro	Reinhold Joest Mario Casoni	Porsche 908/4	184
4th	GT	48	Tebernum Porsche Racing Team	Hartwig Bertrams Reine Wisell Clemens Schickentanz	Porsche Carrera RSR	182
5	GT	47	Tebernum Porsche Racing Team	Clemens Schickentanz Hartwig Bertrams Reine Wisell	Porsche Carrera RSR	178
6th	S 1.6	27	Scuderia Citta dei Mille	Giancarlo Gagliardi Antonio Bramen	Chevron B31	175
7th	S 3.0	7th	Dr. H. Dannesberger	Leo Kinnunen Herbert Müller	Porsche 908/4	173
8th	S 2.0	14th	Dorset Racing Associates	Claude Crespin Ian Harrower	Lola T294	165
9	S 2.0	18th	KVG Racing	John Hine Ian Grob	Chevron B31	154
Not classified
10	S 2.0	11	Eugenio Renna	Eugenio Renna Luigi Moreschi	Chevron B26	142
11	S 3.0	5	Scuderia Nettuno	Jürgen Barth Ernst Kraus	Porsche 908/3	136
Failed
12	S 1.3	35		Pasquale Anastasio Roberto Arfé	Chevron B26	164
13	S 1.6	25th		Ermanno Pettiti Carlo Bilotti	Osella PA3	133
14th	S 1.3	40		Marcello Gallo Piero Bongiovanni	Lola T290	77
15th	S 2.0	20th	"King"	Franco Lisitano "King"	GRD S74	64
16	S 1.3	38		Giampaolo Ceraolo Luigi Sartorio	Chevron B23	63
Not started
17th	S 2.0	10	Equipe Elf Switzerland	Lella Lombardi Marie-Claude Charmasson	Alpine-Renault A441	1
18th	S 3.0	T	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Jochen Mass Derek Bell Henri Pescarolo	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12	2
19th	S 3.0	1T	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Arturo Merzario	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 CP	3

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Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
20th	GT			Artemisio Carducci Vincenzo Mirto Randazzo	Porsche Carrera RSR
21st	S 1.6			Gianfranco Trombetti Lorenzo Niccolini	Osella PA3
22nd	GT			Toine Hezemans John Fitzpatrick	Porsche Carrera RSR
23	S 2.0			Richard Robarts Robin Smith	Chevron B23
24	S 2.0		Roger Heavens Racing	Manrico Zanuso Roger Heavens	Lola T294
25th	S 2.0			Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Pierre-Marie Painvin	Lola T292
26th	S 2.0			Antônio Castro Prado Alan Stubbs	March 75S
27	S 3.0			Giorgio Pianta Vittorio Brambilla	Lola T282
28	S 3.0			Tim Schenken Hans-Joachim Stuck	Mirage GR7
29	S 1.6			Ledy Zampolli	GRD S75
30th	S 1.3			Claudio Francisci Maurizio Flammini	Chevron B26
31	S 1.3			Marco Crosina	Osella PA3
32	GT			Raffaele Restivo Alfonso Merendino	Porsche Carrera RSR
33	S 2.0			Mario Cabral Colin Andrews	March 75S

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Arturo Merzario	Jochen Mass		Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12	Overall victory
S 2.0	Claude Crespin	Ian Harrower		Lola T294	Rank 8
S 1.6	Giancarlo Gagliardi	Antonio Bramen		Chevron B31	Rank 6
S 1.3	no participant in the finish
GT	Hartwig Bertrams	Pure Wisell	Clemens Schickentanz	Porsche Carrera RSR	Rank 4

Racing data

• Registered: 33
• Started: 16
• Rated: 9
• Race classes: 5
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: hot and dry
• Route length: 4.845 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:05: 25,700 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 207
• Total distance of the winning team: 1002.915 km
• Winner's average: 197.018 km / h
• Pole position: Arturo Merzario - Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 (# 1) - 1: 21.760 = 213.567 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Arturo Merzario - Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 (# 1) - 1: 24.100 = 207.396 km / h
• Racing series: Round 6 of the Sports Car World Championship in 1975

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results at wspr

Previous race 1000 km from Spa-Francorchamps 1975

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1975